100 Years Ago Today 9/16/1920: Brooklyn Robins Extend Lead to Six Over Reds and Giants

From the desk of: FINGERPRINTS OF DEM BUMS

100th Anniversary

BROOKLYN ROBINS

1920 National League Champions

Game #144: Thursday, September 16, 1920 - BR
Cincinnati Reds vs. Brooklyn Dodgers
Ebbets Field

Burleigh Grimes Turns Away Defending Champions; Robins Extend Lead to Six.

With the defending world champions in town Uncle Robbie puts the ball in the hands of his ace, Burleigh Grimes.  He is opposed by sixteen game winner Dutch Ruether.  The confident Reds waste no time taking a 1-0 lead on an Edd Rouch base hit.  Undeterred, Brooklyn counters in the bottom half of the frame with runs driven in by Zack Wheat and Hi Myers and in a flash Reds manager Pat Moran blazes a trail from the dugout towards the pitching mound.  Out goes Dutch Ruether and in comes right-hander Ray Fisher.  Pete Kilduff promptly greets the Reds reliever with a hit up the middle scoring Wheat for a 3-1 Robins lead.  Cincinnati then reminds Robins fans exactly whom they're up against.  With two outs and a runner on first in the fifth, first baseman Jake Daubert hits a Grimes offering deep beyond the reach of left fielder Zack Wheat that goes for an inside the park home run.  However, the Robins quickly break the deadlock on Otto Miller's hit in the sixth and add an insurance run on Tommy Griffith's double in the seventh, both runs coming against Fisher.  Burleigh Grimes retires the Reds in order to close out the ninth.  The spitballer improves to 22-10 with a 2.10 ERA.  Hi Myers is 2 for 4 and drives home his team leading 77th run batted in.  Brooklyn improves to 15-3 in September and now owns a six game lead over the Reds with eleven games left to play.  Cincinnati, however, still has eighteen games on their docket.  But that's because numerous rain postponements this season are coming to bear upon the Reds who must play five double-headers in the final weeks to come.  Meanwhile, the New York Giants split a twin bill with the Phillies which ties them with the Reds for second place.  The Giants have fifteen games left on their schedule, five of which are against Brooklyn.

• RECORD: 85-58 (.594)
• 1st Place; 6.0 GA

AMERICAN LEAGUE

• The Chicago White Sox best the Yankees 8-3 at Comiskey Park.  Thus New York falls into a first place tie with the Cleveland Indians.  The Yankees have twelve games on their schedule.  Meanwhile the White Sox close to within 1.5 games of first place, with two more games left in their series against the Yankees and thirteen games left in their regular season.